Dialogical rhetoric : an essay on truth and normativity after postmodernism /
Contemporary developments in philosophy have declared truth as such troublesome, and not merely gaining access to it. In a systematic survey this study investigates what is at stake when truth is given up. A historical overview shows how the current problem of truth came about, and suggests ways to...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
[2002]
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| Series: | Argumentation library ;
v. 7. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Truth: What is the problem?
- 1. The notion of truth
- 2. Tracing the fifth confusion
- 3. Theories of truth
- 4. Tarski's semantic notion of truth
- 5. A deflationary direction
- 2. A short history of truth and related matters
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The traditional understanding of truth
- 3. Pre-modern philosophy; the logical space of truth
- 4. The shift to the modern
- 5. After foundationalism; rethinking rationality
- 6. Differance
- 7. A differant view
- 3. From dialogue to rhetoric
- 1. Logical spaces
- 2. From dialectics to rhetoric
- 3. Shifting rhetoric
- 4. Conclusion
- 4. What is wrong with fallacies?
- 1. Formal invalidity
- 2. Informal logic